πελαργός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The origin is Pre-Greek. Folk-etymologically explained as πελλός (pellós, “dark”) +‎ ἀργός (argós, “white”). Has been linked with Old Armenian արագիլ (aragil).

Witczak (1991) suggests that the word is a compound, with second term continuing otherwise unattested *ἁργός (*hargós), from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”), akin e.g. to Proto-Germanic *sturkaz (“stork”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pe.laːr.ɡós/ → /pe.larˈɣos/ → /pe.larˈɣos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pe.laːr.ɡós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pe.larˈɡos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pe.larˈɣos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pe.larˈɣos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pe.larˈɣos/

Noun

πελᾱργός • (pelārgós) m (genitive πελᾱργοῦ); second declension

1. stork

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πελᾱργός; τοῦ πελᾱργοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πελᾱργός ho pelārgós	τὼ πελᾱργώ tṑ pelārgṓ	οἱ πελᾱργοί hoi pelārgoí
Genitive	τοῦ πελᾱργοῦ toû pelārgoû	τοῖν πελᾱργοῖν toîn pelārgoîn	τῶν πελᾱργῶν tôn pelārgôn
Dative	τῷ πελᾱργῷ tôi pelārgôi	τοῖν πελᾱργοῖν toîn pelārgoîn	τοῖς πελᾱργοῖς toîs pelārgoîs
Accusative	τὸν πελᾱργόν tòn pelārgón	τὼ πελᾱργώ tṑ pelārgṓ	τοὺς πελᾱργούς toùs pelārgoús
Vocative	πελᾱργέ pelārgé	πελᾱργώ pelārgṓ	πελᾱργοί pelārgoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: πελαργός (pelargós)
• → Arabic: بِلَّارِج (billārij) (Tunisian, Algerian, Moroccan)
• → Classical Syriac: ܦܝܠܪܓܐ (pīlargā)

Further reading

• “πελαργός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πελαργός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πελαργός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • stork idem, page 821.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1165
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “արագիլ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 292–293
• Lagarde, Paul de (1877) Armenische Studien (in German), Göttingen: Dieterich, § 225, page 19
• Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz. 1991. "Indo-European *sr̥C in Germanic". Historische Sprachforschung 104:1, pp. 106–107.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Noun

πελαργός • (pelargós) m (plural πελαργοί)

1. stork (bird)

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	πελαργός (pelargós)	πελαργοί (pelargoí)
genitive	πελαργού (pelargoú)	πελαργών (pelargón)
accusative	πελαργό (pelargó)	πελαργούς (pelargoús)
vocative	πελαργέ (pelargé)	πελαργοί (pelargoí)

See also

• ερωδιός m (erodiós) (heron)
• γερανός m (geranós) (crane)

Further reading

• πελαργός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el